Patel, Vikram ; Shiva Kumar, A. K. ; Paul, Vinod K. ; Rao, Krishna D. ; Srinath Reddy, K. (2011) Universal health care in India: the time is right Lancet, 377 (9764). p. 448. ISSN 0140-6736
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Summary: India has supported the ideal of health for all since it become an independent nation more than 60 years ago. The Bhore Committee report1 in 1946 recommended a national health system for delivery of comprehensive preventive and curative allopathic services through a rural-focused multilevel public system, financed by the government, through which all citizens would receive care irrespective of their ability to pay. However, a newly independent India faced monumental challenges in 1947. The country had be en divided by a bloody partition, poverty was widespread, the economy was weak, and the administrators were new.
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